Bind could be made to consume memory or crash if it received specially crafted network traffic.
Matthew Horsfall discovered that Bind incorrectly handled regular expression checking. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause Bind to consume an excessive amount of memory, possibly resulting in a denial of service. This issue was corrected by disabling RDATA regular expression syntax checking.
29 March 2013
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
Bind could be made to consume memory or crash if it received specially crafted network traffic.
Matthew Horsfall discovered that Bind incorrectly handled regular expression checking. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause Bind to consume an excessive amount of memory, possibly resulting in a denial of service. This issue was corrected by disabling RDATA regular expression syntax checking.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
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